F1 Regulations

[Scrawny]

Over the last few years, we've seem a whole ream of regulation changes in F1, mostly with the intention of slowing the cars down. We've had racing circuits turned into narrow strips of tarmac, punctuated with chicanes. We've cars with increasingly narrow tyres, now grooved and harder. And the cars are still breaking lap records, but there's no overtaking.

As we're all armchair experts, what is the general consensus on where F1 should go from here? If you could make one change to the current regs, what would it be and would you make it to the cars or the tracks? How dramatic would you make them? Why?

I'll start it off. I'd chop off all wings - the cars look better without them anyway. I can think of another three or four major changes, but this would be my first one. Rely on mechanical grip - back to the old Formula Vee way of doing it. Less tow, but easier to tailgate through corners and slingshot past on the circuits we see today. Hence overtaking returns! Or am I missing something???

[Eirik]

I would change the rule to Anything goes engine wise (turbo, 2-stroke, 10-litre etc etc) as long as it doesn't use more than 150 litres (or whatever) in total in a race. Make the allowed fuel rule to about 10% less than the current figure, and we would see lots of interesting stuff. One could run a turbo, twist the waste gate shut and pass anybody in a blink. That would require a lot of fuel, though, so you'd better be sure you could spend it first. Or you could run more power all through the race than the turbos (which would have to conserve somthing for the passing manouvres(sp?) and perhaps be able to run away with a big V8 :D

[Astraman]

Bring back slick tyres therfore they might be able to outbrake each other alot more often withou going off.Also enforce the weight law and ban Ballast.All the current teams have cars which are way under the legal weight limit.They bring up the weight by placing ballast in the car wherever it suits on the car to do so.

[Junior]

How about one team has to have one driver from the Sub 1.6 litre Super Category (seen live doing laps of Waterford and Dungarvan every Saturday night) Baseball caps and Oakleys to become mandatory ... The Playstation Route is only viable if you are not in a McLaren ... the team colors to be selected by Melinda Messenger... but all the Female Models gear is decided by Eddie Irvine.
Sarah Kavanagh is taken to the front of the grid every week and she is slapped by the marshals for even thinking of trying to get into F1 ...

Girls yeah whoosh

Junior
:D

[Joker]

I would keep the wings but reduce their effectiveness greatly (thank god the x-wings were banned.) Keep everything else more or less the same. That should slow them down for a year or two and when they get back up to breaking lap-records, take the wings off all together!

Keep the engine regs the same, maybe bring back a limit to the amount of fuel the team has available to finish a race. Those developments will find their way back to production cars and we'll all benefit!